Nicholas Sackman (born 12 April 1950) is an
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classical composer.
Education
Sackman studied composition at the
University of Nottingham
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, completed his MA at the
University of Leeds
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with the
composer
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in 1974, and was subsequently awarded a Doctorate of Music from the University of Nottingham in 1996.
Early performances
During this time he had many performances both in the United Kingdom and further afield with ''Ensembles and Cadenzas'' performed at the BBC Young Composers Forum and the Gaudeamus Festival, ''A Pair of Wings'' at the
Bath Music Fest and the 1974 ISCM Festival, ''Paraphrase'', premiered by the
London Sinfonietta
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, the ''String Quartet no. 2'' and his ''Piano Sonata'', written for Peter Lawson.
Following his study he became a Head of Music in secondary schools in London and then Hertfordshire, which led to a number of commissions for amateur orchestral players including ''Mosaic'' for the
Nottingham Youth Orchestra, ''Cecilia dances'' for the Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra, and sets of pieces for young performers entitled ''Folios''.
University of Nottingham
In 1990 he was awarded a composition lectureship at the University of Nottingham. Following his appointment Sackman has received numerous commissions including his magnus orchestral work ''Hawthorn'' commissioned by the
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, premiered at the 1993
Proms
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, and released by
NMC Recordings, ''Vivace'' for
Sinfonia ViVA
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, ''Meld'' for Philip Mead and the RNCM Brass Ensemble, a percussion quartet entitled ''Puppets'' for Drumstruck, and more recently ''Concerto in Black'' for the
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. He was commissioned, along with 100 other British composers, to write the song ''
Maiden in the Moor'' for the recently released NMC Songbook (winner of a 2009 Gramophone award), and many recordings of his works appear on the Metier label.
His works have been performed across the UK, including at the
Leeds Festival, the Bath Festival, Royal Festival Hall,
Queen Elizabeth Hall
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, Purcell Room, St John's Smith Square,
Royal Albert Hall
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, and the
Edinburgh Festival
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, as well as in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Sweden and America.
A recording of his recent ''Concertino'' for violin and orchestra will shortly be released on the Parma label, and his first ''Violin Sonata'', written for
Ruth Palmer was premiered in March 2010.
Reputation
Sackman has asserted a "direct and uncompromising musical voice – one in which cogent argument and powerful fantasy are realized in strikingly memorable forms."
Schott Music, Retrieved 8 January 2009 Similarly, when reworking pre-existing music he adapts it into his own highly individualistic contemporary classical music, contemporary idiom to the extent that the quotation appears inevitable.
References
External links
Chronological list of compositions
Nicholas Sackman at Schott Music
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1950 births
Living people
20th-century classical composers
21st-century classical composers
British classical composers
British male classical composers
Alumni of the University of Nottingham
Alumni of the University of Leeds
20th-century British composers
21st-century British composers
20th-century British male musicians
21st-century British male musicians